Guilt, Suffering, Confession and Redemption in Crime and Punishment Ess

Guilt, Suffering, Confession and salvation in Crime and Punish custodyt You keep lying screamed Raskolnikov, no bimestrial able to restrain himself. Youre lying, you damned clown And he flung himself on Porfiry, who retired to the doorway, plainly without a trace of panic. I understand everything, everything He approached Porfiry. Youre lying and teasing me so Ill give myself away- You cant give yourself away any more than than you have already, Rodion Romanovich, old man. Why, youve gone into a state. Dont shout, Ill call my men, sir (Dostoyevsky, 34) No kind person with any values is able to commit a atrocious crime without some feeling of transgression or remorse afterwards. Slowly, this iniquity festers and eats away at ones conscience until the point of escape, reached by confession, hence leading to salvation. Throughout Dostoyevskys Crime and. Punishment the main character, Raskolnikov is stricken with guilt and suffering that eventually lead to his confession and redemption motivated by many forces. Crime and Punishment is the story of a young apprehension, Raskolnikov, who develops a superman theory. In his hypothesis, he felt that certain men were extraordinary and could commit unethical acts without punishment or a at fault conscience. In his case, he wanted to rid the earth of a sponge through the vicious slaying of an old pawnbroker, Alyona, and her sister, Lizaveta, in order to befool money so that he could continue his studies and to see if he was genuinely extraordinary. Was he truly the Napoleon that he thought he was? Could he walk over people with no regard for their feelings or sufferings as Napoleon had? (Literary Criticism, 68) He is obviously no superman or Napoleon, further didnt get enough fre... ...ut its overwhelming power and the fact that it made such(prenominal) a painful impression on readers that those with strong nerves reduce ill and those with weak nerves had to give up reading it. (Kjetsaa, 183) kit an d caboodle Cited Bloom, Harold. Modern Critical Interpretations. smart York, New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1988. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. New York, New York New American Library, Inc., 1968. Gale Research Co. Nineteenth Century publications Criticism. Detroit, MI 1984, Vol. 7. Kjetsaa, Geir. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writers Life. New York, New York Viking Penguin Inc., 1987, Magill, Frank. Masterplots. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Salem Press, 1976. Terras, Victor. handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven, CT Yale University Press, 1985. Timoney, John. Speech on Crime and Punishment. Mt. Holyoke College, November 10, 1994.